Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday Pennsylvania broke Yale's wonderful record by securing a goal and a touchdown. Yale had not been scored against since losing to Harvard in the fall of 1890 by a score of 12 to 6. It is unfair to claim from this that Harvard's eleven is stronger than Yale's. Harvard has not this season met so strong opponents as the eleven from Philadelphia, and from her showing against those she has met can not be accurately compared with Yale. Besides, it is necessary to remember that Yale's players above all others, will never give...
...tonight of Class Day officers from Ninety-four. It is not for two or three men to settle between them which one shall accept a nomination, for that is not fair to the Class. The voters themselves should decide between several candidates and not the candidates themselves. Much more unfair is it for any one clique or combination of cliques to interpret the sentiment of the class and to use their influence to keep out of prominence men who have at least a claim to be considered. To secure anything like a real expression of the wishes of Ninety-four...
...election of Class Day officers by the senior class is so near at hand that a protest againt illegal and underhanded methods may seem so late as to be useless, yet we must place ourselves squarely against the unfair methods sometimes employed at these elections. The minute a class begins to have "bosses" and to split itself up into antagonistic factions, each running its own candidates, the fairness and honorableness which ought to exist at college if anywhere ceases to exist and the element of "machine polititics" sweeps everything before it. We cannot afford to have a Tammany ring...
...trial was unfair.- (a) Great excitement at the time, Open Court, August 10, 1893. (b) Talesmen unfairly selected. (c) Incompetency of jurors. (d) Prejudice of the judge. (e) Police conduct of case outrageous...
...action taken were obviously ridiculous. In the first place the meeting was illegal; the class met at a specified time, transacted business, whether legally or illegally, and disbanded, and there was no provision for any meeting after that. Moreover, had it been legal, the action would still have been unfair...